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A LARGE AND SUPERB CARVED IMPERIAL-YELLOW GLASS
BOTTLE
1750-1820
Of flattened rounded shape and carved in delicate low relief to both
sides with a pair of confronted archaistic chilong with key-pattern and
hooked-scroll bodies in a wide band with thin rope-twist edges at mid
body between two bands of lotus lappets and raised dots on the lower
third of the body and a single coiling chilong above dividing lion-mask
fixed-ring handles at the rounded shoulders beneath a waisted neck
with plantain leaf lappets, the rim flat with a regular mouth opening, all
supported on a short rounded oval foot ring with shallow cut base.
3 1/4in (8.2cm) high, stopper
$6,000 - 9,000
1750-1820 御用黃料刻雙龍雷紋鼻煙壺一件
Provenance:
Private collection, New York
Bonhams New York, 14 March 2016, lot 8023
來源:
私人收藏,紐約
邦瀚斯,紐約,2016年3月14日,拍品號8023
For another yellow glass bottle of similar type attributed to the Beijing
Palace workshops during the Qianlong period and carved with a wide
band of archaistic dragons set between a diaper ground, see Hugh
Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 5, Part 2, Hong
Kong, 2002, p. 344-346, no.828 and also illustrated by Robert W.L.
Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George
Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 56, no. 66.
See also Moss et. al., ibid., pp. 351-352, no. 831 for another Imperial
yellow bottle where the central band of decoration echos that found on
the shoulder of our bottle and has identical lappets at the foot and neck.
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